by Guy Gavriel Kay, Simon Vance
The epic fantasy ends about where you expect it to, but Kay throws in a few surprises that prove his story of light overcoming darkness was a subtle one, too. There is a lot going on in this book and Kay picks up on a lot of Arthurian lore and other Western myths in fleshing out the book, but the ...
Like the other books in the series, for me, this is a hard slog at the beginning, but once I get into it I soar right to the end. Even knowing what happens, I still get swept away in it every time.
The third and, in my opinion, the strongest of the Fionavar series, for the simple reason that GGK can write a climax of multiple plot threads like nobody's business. This isn't to say that this book is flawless, of course. As in the rest of the series, GGK occasionally waxes pretentious on his ch...
It grew on me a bit more from the active dislike I felt during big parts of part 2 and this third one. It's old fantasy, and I can't see impossibly good vs. impossibly evil anymore. The writing style isn't my type either and some phrases were used so often, I got angry at the book every time I encou...
This suddenly got way too Power Rangers for me. No one was a bigger fan of the Darien story at the beginning of the last book (or Jennifer’s story? Both) than this girl, but, man, when it turned out that he had laser eyes? That was a bummer. I mean, you might say, “no, no his eyes just turn red,”...
SPOILERS AHEAD, SO MANY SPOILERSThe concluding volume of Fionavar Tapestry is a perfect fantasy novel. Happily stripped of the awkward, stilted ‘real world’ situations and dialogue that occasionally marred the preceding novels, The Darkest Road takes place entirely in Fionavar and is all the stronge...
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